In the late 1980s, Stanford geologist Amos Nur coauthored a paper speculating that the San Andreas Fault might be looking for a new outlet in the Mojave Desert.

The San Andreas Fault has three sections. The southern section runs from the Salton Sea to Parkfield, California, and has the capacity for large quakes. In 1857, for example, ...

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A new high-resolution map of a poorly known section of the northern San Andreas Fault reveals signs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and may hold some clues as to how the fault could rupture ...

Map showing the area of the San Andreas Fault that the researchers studied. Rebecca Dzombak. In their research, the team looked at historical records of earthquakes in the region stretching back ...

Sandwell, who has been working with his former Scripps graduate student Xiaopeng Tong and Scripps alumna Bridget Smith-Konter of the University of Texas at El Paso, will deliver an invited overview ...

An effort to map offshore portions of the San Andreas fault could help scientists better understand past earthquakes -- and the potential for future ones. For the first time, scientists are using ...

The San Andreas Fault is California's longest and most famous fault. At this fracture zone, two plates of Earth's crust move past each other. It stretches from the Salton Sea in Southern ...

Here's a map of the significant fault lines and strong earthquakes in the Bay Area. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay Welcome, Mickey ...

“They tell us that the fault continues down below where the regular or typical earthquakes stop on the San Andreas, about 10 or 12 km [about six to seven miles],” Shelly said.

The largest earthquakes recorded on the San Andreas fault include the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (approximately magnitude 7.8) and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (magnitude 6.9).

A simulation of a plausible major southern San Andreas fault earthquake — a magnitude 7.8 that begins near the Mexican border along the fault plane and unzips all the way to L.A. County's ...